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Chennai: The launch of India's third navigational satellite IRNSS-1C has been postponed by a week, the Indian space agency said on Monday.
In a posting on its Facebook page, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said: "Due to an observation in the telemetry system, the launch has been postponed for a...

Sriharikota: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday witnessed the PSLV C23 launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. A thrilled Modi congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation scientists and thanked them for giving him the opportunity to witness the launch in person.
Speaking after the launch of the five foreign satellites,...

Sriharikota: It is a big day for the Indian Space Research Organisation on Monday as last minute preparations are in full swing for the launch of the PSLV C23 rocket at 9:52 am. The PSLVC23 rocket will be carrying satellites of France, Germany, Canada and Singapore.
Among the audience will...

New Delhi: It's been a decade since Shah Rukh Khan's 'Swades' hit the screens and his character Mohan Bhargava, a project manager at Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory with NASA hit the right chord with the audiences.
In 'Swades', Shah Rukh worked with a department called GPM which is...

The countdown for the India's ambitious Rs 430crore Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) began on Sunday 6.08 am at Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh, a space agency official said.
The countdown to the flight of Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLVC25) will be for 56.30 hours which is expected to...

Hyderabad: The countdown has begun for the crucial launch of India's GSLVD5 on Monday. The launch will take place at 4:50 pm from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. The GSLV will carry a communications satellite GSAT14 and is powered by indigenous cryogenic engines which is being tested after a...

Sriharikota: The Indian space agency has lined up a string of launches, including the silver jubilee flight of the Polar Satellite Launch VehicleC25 (PSLVC25) carrying the Mars orbiter, a top official said. "The Mars mission will be anytime after October 21 this year," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K...

Chennai: India's first dedicated navigation satellite IRNSS1A will be launched onboard PSLVC22 around midnight on Monday from the spaceport of Sriharikota with the mission countdown progressing smoothly. ISRO's workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is scheduled to blast off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, about 80 km...

Chennai: All is set for the launch of Indo-French satellite 'SARAL', aimed at oceanographic studies, and six foreign mini and micro satellites onboard ISRO's workhorse rocket PSLV from the spaceport of Sriharikota in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Monday. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C20 is slated for blast-off at 5.56...

Chennai: The Indian space agency will February 25 put into orbit seven foreign satellites including an IndoFrench collaborative satellite SARAL and thus earn much wanted revenue.
"The launch of the Polar Satellite Launch VehicleC20 (PSLVC20) is currently fixed for February 25 evening," sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
"The...

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to accomplish 10 space missions in the next one year, parliament was informed on Wednesday.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy told the Lok Sabha that eight of these are planned by September 2013 and the remaining...

Cape Canaveral: A tropical storm forced the delay of the US space agency's launch of a pair of satellites to Earth's harsh radiation belts, just four minutes before the rockets fired.
The countdown was halted early on Saturday for the second time in as many days.
NASA initially said it would try...

Moscow: North Korea will continue satellite launches for peaceful purposes, an official said a week after a failed launch.
"The DPRK's (North Korea) satellites for peaceful purposes will be put into space one after another," said a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology (KCST) in a statement posted on...

Bangalore: Indian Space Research Organisation has signed a deal, believed to be valued at around Rs 100 crore, to launch an 800 kg satellite of ASTRIUM SAS, a Company under EADS, France.
ISRO said in a statement a commercial launch services agreement between Antrix Corporation Limited (ANTRIX), its commercial arm, and...

Islamabad: Pakistan's PakSat1R geostationary communications satellite was on Thursday launched into space by a Chinese rocket from a site in southwest China.
The satellite was carried into space by a Long March3B rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province late on Thursday.
PakSat1R was built by scientists and engineers...

Beijing: For the first time, China will be launching a communication satellite for close ally Pakistan, a move that will mark "a new beginning" in bilateral space collaboration. The satellite named PAKSAT1R will be launched at an "appropriate time" in the coming days; staterun Xinhua news agency quoted an unnamed...

Thiruvananthapuram: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which had a recent setback with the failure of its latest communication satellite GSAT5P, is planning three major satellite launches in the first quarter of this year.
'Resourcesat2', an advanced remote sensing satellite, 'Youthsat', a participatory scientific mission with payloads from both Russia and India,...

Seoul: North Korea put its troops on alert and cut the last hot line to Seoul on Monday as the American and South Korean militaries began joint maneuvers.
The communist regime warned that even the slightest provocation could trigger war.
The North stressed that provocation would include any attempt to interfere...

Seoul: North Korea put its armed forces on standby for war on Monday and threatened retaliation against anyone seeking to stop the regime from launching a satellite into space in the latest barrage of threats from the communist regime.
The warning came as US and South Korean troops kicked off their...

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday simultaneously launched 10 satellites into Earths orbit with a record 824kg payload from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
The spectacular launch has helped India set a new world record, placing the country in the lead of not only Russia and Europe, but...

Sriharikota: India on Monday joined an elite club of the ranks of the US, Russia, China and France with the countrys first fully commercial launch.
It's the first time ISRO made money from a launch as it puts an Italian satellite in orbit.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C8 carried a...

New Delhi: India on Monday successfully launched another communication satellite, INSAT 4B.
The Ariane5 rocket, carrying INSAT4B, had a perfect lift off from Kourou in French Guiana. Ariane5 also shuttled the British Defence Ministry's Skynet 5A satellite.
INSAT4B is equipped with 24 communications transponders and it will mainly boost DirecttoHome television services...

New Delhi: The launch of India's latest telecommunication satellite INSAT4B has been deferred at the Kourou spaceport in French Guyana on Sunday.
The launch was postponed after the anomaly in the launch pad was detected during the countdown for the liftoff.
The countdown was put on a temporary hold seven minutes...